Name: White City
SKU: 64085870
Price: 872.00 TWD
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Author: Dominic Nolan
ISBN: 9781035416752

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White City

Dominic Nolan (Author) · Taylor and Francis · Hardcover

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Delivery: 23 Nov - 01 Dec

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Synopsis "White City"

I very much doubt I ll read a better crime novel this year IAN RANKIN Dominic Nolan is a wonderful writer CHRIS WHITAKER Crime writing of the highest quality DAILY MAIL It s 1952 and London is victorious but broken a city of war ruins and rationing run by gangsters and black market spivs An elaborate midnight heist the biggest robbery in British history sends newspapers into a frenzy Politicians are furious the police red faced They have suspicions but no leads Hunches but no proof For two families it is more than just a sensational headline as their fathers fail to return home on the day of the robbery Young Addie Rowe daughter of a missing Jamaican postman and drunk ex club hostess mother struggles to care for her little sister in a dilapidated Brixton rooming house Claire Martin increasingly resentful of roads not taken strives to make the rent and keep her teenage son Ray from falling under unsavoury influences in Notting Dale She finds herself caught between the interests of dangerous men who may know the truth behind her husband s disappearance Dave Lander whose reserved nature she finds difficult to reconcile with his reputation as a violent gang enforcer and Teddy Mother Nunn a sociopathic evangelising outlaw and top li